Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tibbetts of the Christian Association)--engaged in drinking a yellow fluid which I knew intuitively to be beer. I was still more aghast to see that they made absolutely no attempt to conceal their act, and, indeed, actually seemed to enjoy it. Imagine my feelings, fellows! I asked a policeman to put a stop to it at once. He refused. I have sent his number to Mr. Tibbetts. The officer informed me that it was a nightly occurrence! Think of it! I would not have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes. He said...
...Police graft," said Mr. Woods in conclusion, "is not primarily the fault of the grafting policeman--it is to his credit that there is not more graft. And there is no adequate way of rewarding policemen for good work; yet you find them on the whole doing pretty good work with very fair honesty--for a body...
...Arthur Woods '92, police commissioner of New York City spoke interestingly in the Union last night on the problems that confront a policeman in New York and of the imperfect conditions under which a body of 11,000 men has to control a population of five and a half millions, two and a half millions of which are foreigners. He spoke of the various methods of policeing the city and told of his experiences as deputy commissioner six years ago. "One of the most striking things about New York crime," said Mr. Woods, "is the fact that a large proportion...
...speaking of the police force, he said, "You can say what you like about the New York policeman in certain critical cases, but you cannot with any justice say anything derogatory as to his bravery." He cited numerous instances of bravery under very trying circumstances and went on to say that the spirit of the force does more than anything else to build up a thoroughly honest police department. "Men respond to spirit, morale, call it what you will, more than to anything else in the world...
...danced so well and over whose head the plate was smashed. Was his skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...